CBS greenlights BrainDead, about brain-eating aliens in Washington

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Here’s an interesting one: CBS has given a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of BrainDead, a one-hour comic-thriller from Robert and Michelle King, acclaimed creators and executive producers of The Good Wife.

BrainDead will be executive produced and written by the Kings. Ridley Scott, David Zucker and Liz Glotzer will serve as executive producers for CBS Television Studios, Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions, all of whom previously collaborated on “The Good Wife.”

BrainDead follows a young fresh-faced Hill staffer getting her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers. 

Sounds pretty realistic to me! The series will be broadcast in summer 2016.